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This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
The aquifer is the main source of potable groundwater for the Navajo and Hopi tribes, who use the water for farming and livestock as well as drinking and other domestic uses. The tribes alleged that the pumping of water by Peabody Energy caused a severe decline in the number of springs and reduced their access to potable water. [ 4 ]
Flag of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona Congressman Tom O'Halleran meeting with Hopi leadership in 2020. On October 24, 1936, the Hopi Tribe of Arizona ratified a constitution. That constitution created a unicameral government where all powers are vested in a Tribal Council. While there is an executive branch (tribal chairman and vice chairman) and ...
That means federal, tribal and state governments can prosecute cases in which a non-Native person commits a crime against a Native person on tribal land. The court’s majority opinion, written by ...
Diane Joyce Humetewa (/ ˌ h uː m ə ˈ t eɪ w ə / HOO-mə-TAY-wə; [1] born December 5, 1964) [2] [3] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Humetewa is the first Native American woman and the first enrolled tribal member to serve as a U.S. federal judge.
The Hopi Tribal Council is the local governing body consisting of elected officials from the various reservation villages. Its powers were given to it under the Hopi Tribal Constitution. [10] The Hopi consider their life on the reservation (in particular, the traditional clan residence, the spiritual life of the kivas on the mesa, and their ...
After the meeting, Nuvangyaoma and other tribal leaders endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket. [7] A few weeks later, the Hopi received a multi-million dollar grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to improve reservation water quality, triggered by his desire to remove arsenic from tribal water. [8]
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